Recently? I'd say the problem of sharing an unfair load likely goes back as far as the lack of a notable Liberal presence - but perhaps even right to day 1 when Alberta became a province but without its own resource rights that the eastern provinces enjoyed. I'd say Alberta (particularly Calgary) has spent a significant percentage of its history fighting for equality against Liberal federal governments. Now, in fairness, a large part of this overall problem is due to the inequities in the nation's federal makeup. After all, Reform split from the PCs in part because the west was left behind by that party as well.
Ultimately, when you spend that much time being told you have to make the sacrifices for others, people become jaded. And given that the majority of this province's population are either people who have immigrated from other regions or are children of such immigrants, you have to wonder just what the Liberals have done wrong out here such that people originally from Liberal supporting areas of the country inevitably change allegiances.
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